Great Interactive Websites for ALL subject areas:

http://www.adrianbruce.com/index.html an educator in Australia who has provided educators around the world with absolutely amazing FREE resources. On Adrian’s website you can find reading and phonics games to print and play, math games to print and play, printable puzzles to play, posters, art, science, readers theater scripts, writing ideas, and so much more.

http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html features fun educational games that help students develop reading and language skills.

http://sample.iboard.co.uk/curriculum.htm?launch=maths/ji4xj4Sn1tn6fW3kKEUIQ#earlyYears Great interactive activities for the whiteboard.

www.iknowthat.com Great interactive site for students and teachers. Make learning fun yet challenging!!!

http://www.toytheater.com/index.php Toy Theater is a collection of early learning activities to be used as another tool in the teachers toolbox. An eclectic "Theater" of learning toys, Toy Theater is a safe place to play and learn.

http://scienceview.berkeley.edu/showcase/index.html Hosts several activities from habitats to comparing car mileage

http://www.starfall.com/ Online books for children to read from ABCs (getting ready to read) to readers (includes folk tales, Chinese fables, Greek myths and others)

MAGPI/ Internet 2 (Our district is a member!)

Blogging:
www.imbee.com Blogging for the elementary teacher and student. Very easy to navigate and create a classroom blog. Students can create trading cards, upload audio and video.

Interactive Games, Tutorials for ALL Subject Areas:
**http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm** I HIGHLY recommend this site. What a GREAT way to let students have fun while LEARNING!

Reading:
http://www.earobics.com/gamegoo/gooey.html Excellent, engaging games for elementary students. Use with the Promethean Board or in computer lab.

Science:
http://www/marketplaceforthemind.com Site created by the US Department of Agriculture. Excellent resources for teachers.

http://caloriecount.about.com/ At the bottom of the page there are links to hundreds of foods (packaged and otherwise). All kinds of nutrition information comes up along with the info that you would find on the package itself.

http://www.webelements.com/ This periodic table has links to "uses" and "biology" for each element. Some of the
info was pretty advanced, but there did seem to be a lot there that a 6th grader could plug into.

History:
Also see the "Social Studies Resources" page on this wikispace
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi Created by the Library of Congress. Great site that features "America's Story".

http://www.mce.k12tn.net/history/historypages.htm

Maps:
http://bensguide.gpo.gov/flash/states_puzzle_lines2.html
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/online-atlas.htm
http://www.yourchildlearns.com/us_map.htm
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm

Math:
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/index.asp The NCES Kids' Zone provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college; find a public library; engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability, graphing, and mathematicians; and to learn many interesting facts about education.
http://www.ixl.com/ Practice makes perfect, and IXL makes math practice fun. With unlimited math questions in more than 1,000 topics, students improve their skills and confidence and always have new challenges to meet.
http://www.crsd.org/domain/1865 Website created by a Council Rock School District teacher\

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/

http://www.diigo.com/user/ksoohy/elementarymath A PA elementary teacher's favorite math sites

http://thirddimension.wikispaces.com/Multiplication 3rd grade teacher created website for math

http://mathforum.org Website created by Drexel University. Excellent math resources

http://mathforum.org/mathtools Search by grade level and resource type (ex. pre-k, lesson plan)

http://www.abc.net.au/countusin/default.htm Basic math concepts. Includes interactive games on largest to smallest, completing half of pictures, counting, sorting, basic addition. FUN for review.

http://www.numbernut.com/ All about math website.

Spelling Practice:
http://www.spellingcity.com/

http://www.spelltube.co.uk/

http://kidsspell.com/

http://bigiqbee.com/

For the Holidays:
Halloween:
http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf Pumpkin carving that can be done on the SmartBoard

Thanksgiving:
http://www.scholastic.com/scholastic_thanksgiving/

http://plimoth.org/kids/

http://plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html

Santa:
http://www.northpole.com/ Write a letter to Santa and receive a response, play games, create music and watch Santa dance, receipes from Mrs. Claus' kitchen.

Elementary Search Engines:
www.thinkfinity.org For teachers and students. Search for resources by grade level and type of resource. There are also lesson plans and resources for teachers.

http://www.askkids.com/ Friendly site for student searches

http://kids.yahoo.com/

http://www.kidsclick.org/

http://www.factmonster.com/

http://schools-wikipedia.org/

WhiteBoard (SmartBoard, Promethean Board):
http://www.ettcnsc.org/Instructional_resources/other/interactive_whiteboard_links.htm Over 100 lessons already created for the whiteboard.

SmartBoard:
http://education.smarttech.com/ste/en-US/Ed+Resource/Lesson+activities/Notebook+Activities/Browse+Notebook/United+States/ Hundreds of ready made lessons for the SmartBoard.

Interactive Maps:
http://www.citycreator.com/ Students can create a city in "anytown", "snoland", or "Medieville"

Reading/Children's Books:
http://www.biguniverse.com/ Read and create children's books online. GREAT RESOURCE!!

All Subject Areas Resource:
http://www.brainpop.com/ Some access is free. Free trial period

www.abcteach.com Free printable worksheets, lesson plans. interactive materials for all subject areas and grade levels. Some material will require you to pay for membership.

http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/ The Children’s University of Manchester is a site created by the University of Manchester that has some excellent mini-lessons and interactive lessons for students on a variety of science, history, literacy, and art topics. Topics include the body and medicines, energy and the environment, ancient Egypt, the earth and beyond, teeth and eating, micro organisms, the brain and senses, talking textiles, and words. Each lesson is like an interactive text book where students are engaged in and discover learning. Each lesson includes an interactive lesson, downloadable resources, educational games, and videos. The level of interaction is outstanding for helping students to learn about each topic.

Elementary and Intermediate Resources